I began working on this series during a research fellowship in Venice, Italy as an attempt to decode the meaning and significance of some of the gestures represented in Byzantine iconography.

From the myriad of gestures one makes in a single day, only a few came to be represented and withstood the centuries on the walls of cathedrals and churches. Being particularly interested in pre-Renaissance representation, I have isolated some gestures and details from the mosaics in San Marco’s Cathedral in Venice in an attempt to highlight their intrinsic expressivity and connotations outside of their apparent context.